DARPA challenges hackers to weaponise benign devices

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a competition to identify how relatively benign technologies and code could be turned into serious security threats.

Dubbed “Improv”, DARPA will bring together experts across multiple disciplines to “look at today’s bustling tech marketplace with an inventor’s eye and imagine how easily purchased, relatively benign technologies might be converted into serious security threats”.

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